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- Certain cues in dress and ornamentation make it easy to distinguish Hindus from
Christians and Muslims, but it is diffi cult to discern Muslims from Christians in
a crowd without meeting individuals and learning their names. - In seeing hints of the “Western” self in this Malayali Christian context, I could not
help wondering whether individualism and autonomy might be better character-
ized by anthropologists as involving a “Judeo-Christian” rather than a “Western”
orientation to the self.